Most bang for your buck with AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Getting the most bang for your buck with AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) Understanding what AWS/EC2 provides for provisioning on-demand storage is critical for DevOps. Companies waste tons by over provisioning AWS. Amazon Elastic Block Store Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for EC2 instance storage. EBS is the virtual hard drives and SSDs for your servers running in the cloud. Amazon EBS volumes are automatically replicated, and it is easy to take snapshots of volumes to back them up in a known state.